> Perhaps we could encourage more "jumbo" distributions, like Enthought's > and ActiveState's. I suspect many people would rather be able to > maintain their Python functionality as a single product.
I think the concept of "jumbo distribution" has been lost. I mentioned it to one of the Enthought people (sorry, forgot who exactly), and he said he had never heard the term. Looking back, it seems that you have to be a commercial enterprise to produce such a thing. There is the python.org distribution, where many volunteers maintain it, and then there are the two (?) free-commercial distributions (ActivePython, and EPD). I'm skeptical that there can be motivation for creating another "community" jumbo distribution - why would anybody put efforts into maintaining it? You don't get much credit for release engineering - except from fellow release engineers. In addition, you have the Linux distributions, which you can also count as jumbo Python distributions (and also jumbo Perl, jumbo Java, jumbo LISP - at least for Debian :-). Again, many of these are commercially based, although there still seems to be space for multiple community distributions (Debian, Gentoo). This is precisely the reason why I want Python to continue including its batteries. If we give that up, it will not come back, and users get frustrated that they have to collect stuff from many places, and that the stuff doesn't fit together completely. What that means for BeautifulSoup, I don't know. First, its authors would have to offer contributing it, and then experts should also agree that this would be a useful inclusion. Some apparently say that html5lib would be a better choice. If that's the thing that is currently on release 0.11, then I think we should take no action at this point - I don't want to include anything that has version 0.11. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
